Top environmentally conscious House Republicans criticized the Trump administration on Tuesday for planning to weaken an Obama-era mercury and toxic air pollution rule to help coal plants.

“There is no reason to relax that standard,” Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., told the Washington Examiner in an interview. “I am against it. I am against coal. Why don’t we just stop burning coal? We’ve got all the natural gas we will ever need.”

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